Leo Gura

@SpectrumDT The claim is that you can become conscious that God exists and what God is. Whether this is practical or not for you is besides the point. It's like I'm making the claim that bigfoot lives in the forest and you can find him. And your reply is, "But is there any practical benefit for me to find this bigfoot?" Maybe there is, maybe there isn't. But the fact remains that bigfoot can be found in the forest, if you want. If you don't want, then don't look for him. Explaining the practical implications of God to an unawakened person is very difficult, and frankly, an insulting thing to ask for. If you were too reduce God to its practical implications then you would miss best parts of God. God is such a profound thing that it transcends the practical domain.

No political leader is perfect. Of course people die. The question is how best to prevent further deaths. Simplistically blaming leaders for Hamas attacks is childish. Regardless of the Israeli leadership, Hamas will continue to do its terrorist attacks. The IDF themselves have basically admitted to bombing an entire refugee center to kill a single Hamas battalion commander. I'm not saying that ratio is the typical ratio. But the IDF seems fine with such a ratio, which is the issue. I've seen the civilian death rate estimated to be 93% in Gaza. I am not going to trust those numbers. We need receipts if such numbers are going to be claimed. Yes, Palestinians have been kicked out of their homes. But that's what happens when you don't have a proper solid state. Anyone can come along and kick you out. That's why a state is needed with a military. Yes, the British controlled that area through military power and they gave it over to Israeli's. That's how geopolitics works after a war. The victors of the war get to decide who gets how much land. If you don't agree with it you can go to war with the British and after you defeat them, you can set your terms and divide the land however you feel like. War has stakes. Those who win wars get land and those who lose wars lose lands. Again, this isn't kindergarten. If Palestinians wanted to keep their land they should have gone to war with the British and blocked them from giving it over to Israel. But that time has long passed. There's no mystery about it. If Israel did a ground invasion without all this massive bombing, they would incur 10000s of casualties as Hamas ambushes them in the urban jungle. This bombing is softening Hamas up so they are unable to do massive damage to the IDF once the land invasion begins. Yes, destroying infrastructure in Gaza significantly cripples Hamas, even if it does not kill them directly. After a few months of bombing Hamas will be on its last legs from lack of supplies. This is like a medieval siege. In a medieval siege the enemy was surrounded and starved out over a period of 6-12 months. After months of bombing Hamas fighters will be so famished, resource-starved, and fatigued that they will not be able to fire a rifle accurately. That is the strategy here. Israel's goal now is to avoid losing 10,000 IDF soldiers in Gaza to ambush attacks.

Because eliminating Hamas is more important than getting back the hostages. As a political leader you cannot let the death of 250 people influence the big picture of your defense policy. If Israel does not properly defend itself 1000s more civilians will be killed by Hamas in the future. So that is the higher priority. It didn't start out as Palestinian land. It was land without a solid state of any kind, being part of various Middle Eastern powers and empires over the centuries. Land cannot be "yours" unless you have built up a solid state to claim and defend it. "Palestine" was never a properly defined state. And it still isn't today. Because it was never powerful enough to define itself. If you want to be able to have a state, you must be able to win a war. If you can't win a war then you don't get a state. That's the way things work. This is not kindergarten.

It gives me mental energy and makes my visual field sharper. It even raises my baseline consciousness a bit.

They are less. In a true genocide Israel would intentionally target civilians. You can't do a genocide by only going after Hamas. The problem is not that they are doing genocide, it's that they are being too loose and careless when targetting Hamas. The Israeli policy is that if a bomb will kill 1 Hamas guy and 100 civilians, they drop the bomb. This loose standard is the problem.

I am not saying Green is the correct approach. I am just explaining how leftists see the world. That it is not coming from anti-semitism.

And those cases are also discussed. Genocide is a concern when it happens in China, in Mynamar, in Rowanda, in Ukraine, etc. The Palestinian situation is pretty unique and has lasted for over 70 years. So it's of especial concern. In any developed country which had a terrorist attack which killed 1400 civilians, we would be very obsessed over it. This is not as common as you suggest.

Holding the position that a Jewish state should not exist is not anti-semitic. There could be various legit reasons why a Jewish states ought not to exist. The most obvious one is: if its existence requires stealing land from others and oppressing them, then it may not be worth it. No country has a "right" to exist. A country is a fabrication, a human construct. No group of people is guaranteed a country.

Most phone numbers will never respond. Focus on grabbing like 5-10 numbers per night. And focus on same night lays because her mood will be gone the next day.

I discovered that Alpha Lipoic Acid can be a powerful nootropic on its own. Just be careful that you don't have a bunch of heavy metal toxicity, or it can make things worse.

Leftists aren't anti-semitic, they are anti-bullying, and they preceive Israel as bullying the Palestinians. This is where Spiral Dynamics is so helpful. The world is obsessed with Israel because they treat Palestinians with very little compassion, in a very biased way.

You should consume the harmala, wait 30 mins, then consume the DMT. The trip starts about 30 mins after consuming the DMT. Very important to have a totally empty stomach. Don't eat for 4 hrs prior. 100-150mg is a good dose for harmala and DMT alike. Do not combine harmala with 5-MeOs. Could be very dangerous. Harmala doesn't stay in the body longer than 24hrs.

@strangelooper Flat Earth is against our Forum Guidelines. Do not push this conspiracy theory on this forum.

No different than Biden going to meet the Pope.

Cheers!

@tuku747 Very cool example!

It's not so much an issue of whether a thought is the first of its kind, it's more an issue of, did you think through a situatiom for yourself and react your own conclusions? Or did you just copy thr thoughts of someone else. The distinction is that you can think through situations for yourself, independently, from scratch.

Yeah, Sadhguru's followers do not think for themselves. They are groomed to be obedient monkeys.

No.

I don't claim that. I'm well aware of my limits in many areas of life. Most spirituality is not people seriously thinking, they are parroting group-think. This includes the New Agers, Buddhists, nondualists, etc. It's all deep group-think. And when it comes to politics no one is seriously thinking either. The key is to realize hoe precious and rare original thought is in humans. If there's one thing I do differently from others is that I try to think original thoughts. This can take you very far if you do it for years.

You absolutely exist. Not as a human, but as Consciousness.

Very good

Not genocide but war crimes/collective punishment -- yes.

That's always been the case. Even very conscious and awake people can subscribe to all sorts of ridiculous ideas, beliefs, theories, and worldviews. Especially when it comes to stuff like politcs. Most spiritual people will not have good political understanding.

Newsome is presidential material. If he doesn't become president I will be shocked.